Re: My memory is rusty
kwrohrer@enteract.com
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 11:49:44 -0500 (CDT)
And lo, Alistair Riddell saith unto me:
> On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> > That reminds me, anyone know of a disk defragmenter for linux ?
> ftp://linux.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/linux/defrag
>
> I'm not sure there is much to be gained from defragmenting ext2
> filesystems though.
Depends on your filesystem. e2fsck tells you how fragmented it is
(when it actually does the check), and if you do a lot of stuff when
the filesystem is nearly full, the e2fs algorithms can't fight off
the fragmentation effectively.
Keith
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